Especially the Italian kind. Eastern Europe is a late career safe haven for washed up or B-List italo-disco musicians like Francesco Napoli. It also applies to bands like Modern Talking.

In general, the amount of restrictions on western music “being banned” is more a case of official releases (vinyls, cassettes) of bands being hard to come by and those that did, usually did so for the fans at a loss (such as the Depeche Mode concerts in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the GDR during the 1984-1985 Some Great Reward and 1987-1988 Music for the Masses tours) due to for example eastern currencies being worthless in the west.

Western music was played in the radio in at least the GDR (recording from September 1989), (exhibit 2, from 1976) and Poland (recording from January 1985), (exhibit 2, reggae special from 1989) - I can’t speak about other countries, since I can only speak German and Polish well out of all the Eastern Bloc states’ languages.

when you turn 16 they send you to the energy gulag where you do the squat dance on a giant treadmill and that’s how Russia get its energy. The “gas pipelines” are just an illusion

Reminds me of this conscripts, forced to dance by a bloodthirsty commissar, back in the 60’s.

Those who survived the dance session where sent to a Gulag and never seen again.

Source: French sovietologists, probably.

this is an insult to gossipy housewives smh

Those people were all identified and sent to a gulag as they left the venue. Still think communism is cool?

Kremlin (Image of St.Basil’s) propaganda